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All about French Nouns: Focus on Gender

All about French Nouns: Focus on Gender

Burns, Mary N.

Paperback

French

ISBN10: 1581128711
ISBN13: 9781581128710
Publisher: Upublish.Com
Published: Dec 1 1998
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

People nouns (about 1500) are either optional-sex (un enfant, une enfant) or one-sex oriented (un frère, une soeur). To determine gender, in these two instances only, endings do not matter. Sex matters. Sex determines gender. Optionals are listed phonetically in contextual blocks and defined. One-sex nouns are introduced phonetically in context where appropriate throughout. To determine the gender of all other French nouns, noun endings must be considered. Sorting out the mute e-ending nouns is the main gender problem. All of these nouns may be sorted out by means of the two basic rules when exceptions are noted.These two rules determine the gender of 90% of the 33,000 nouns in a comprehensive French dictionary. The remaining 10% are exceptions to the two basic rules and are listed phonetically in rule order in contextual blocks and defined.

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